CURRENT LITE RAT UR E.
The Contemporary Review. September. (Strahan.)—This is an un- usually good number, and the papers it contains are equally attractive in their subjects and meritorious in their execution. All who have followed the controversy between Mr. Mill and the defenders of Sir William Hamilton will be interested by Professor Mansel's "Supple- mentary Remarks." Dr. Hannah's paper on "The Attitude of the Clergy towards Science " is remarkable as a defence of the clergy against the charge of hostility which is so often brought, and which, if it does not apply to many eminent divines, is true of a great number of the clerical body. Dr. Hannah certainly quotes some very significant words from Dr. Pusey, and concludes from them that it is not a matter of faith to believe that the world was only made 6,000 years ago, that the Mosaic cosmogony is literally accurate, that the Deluge covered the highest mountains in the world, or that the genealogies from Adam to Abraham were exact measures of man's existence on the earth. But if Dr. Posey does not consider these points matters of faith, there are many of his school who do, and some of them have expressed themselves to that effect in sufficiently strong language. Principal Tullooh continues his studies in the "History of Religions Thought in England " by a sketch of Chillingworth, and there are interesting articles on the "Ritual Commission" and the "Public School Latin Primer." Of the article on the "Philosophy of Goethe " we cannot speak so highly. But we can most strongly recommend Professor Mil- ligan's discussion of the "Easter Controversies of the Second Century," and the light they throw on the authenticity of the Fourth Gospel. Baur's arguments are ably summarized, and the whole question is gone into with much fairness, while the conclusion to which Professor Milligan comes is, in our opinion, sound and excellent.
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